{"id":2701,"date":"2011-10-21T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/a-fully-biblical-liberation-theology.html"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T11:16:00","slug":"a-fully-biblical-liberation-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/a-fully-biblical-liberation-theology.html","title":{"rendered":"A Fully Biblical Liberation Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Liberation theology began as a movement with-in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, but soon found quarter in some sectors of Protestantism. It is a political theology that interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from unjust economic, political, and social conditions. Proponents say it is the way to view Christian faith through the eyes of the poor; opponents say it is nothing but baptized Marxism.<\/div>\n
I tend to side with the detractors, and yet the liberation theologians\u2014people like Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez of Peru, Leonardo Boff of Brazil, and Jon Sobrino of Spain\u2014had one thing right: the church\u2019s call to make the cause of the poor its own cause. That often entails challenging unjust regimes that grind the face of the poor ever deeper into misery. Certainly one finds biblical justification for seeking political liberation\u2014for one, in the Exodus story, a great inspiration to blacks caught in the clutches of American racism.<\/div>\n
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Liberation theology began as a movement with-in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, but soon found quarter in some sectors of Protestantism. It is a political theology that interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from unjust economic, political, and social conditions. 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